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Selected Verse: Acts 7:46 - King James
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| Ac 7:46 |
King James |
Who found favour before God, and desired to find a tabernacle for the God of Jacob. |
Summary Of Commentaries Associated With The Selected Verse
| Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
Who found favour ... - That is, God granted him great prosperity, and delivered him from his enemies.
To find a tabernacle - To prepare a permanent dwelling-place for the "ark," and for the visible symbols of the divine presence. Hitherto the ark had been kept in the tabernacle, and had been borne about from place to place. David sought to build a house that would be permanent, where the ark might be deposited, 2 Sam. 7; Ch1 22:7. |
| Vincent's Word Studies, by Marvin R. Vincent [1886] |
Desired (ᾐτήσατο)
More correctly, asked: through Nathan. See Sa2 7:2.
Tabernacle (σκήνωμα)
It was not a tabernacle or tent which David proposed to build, but a house. See Sa2 7:2. Rev., rightly, habitation. Compare οἶκον, a house, Act 7:47, and Ch2 6:18. |
| Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65] |
| Who petitioned to find a habitation for the God of Jacob - But he did not obtain his petition: for God remained without any temple till Solomon built him a house. Observe how wisely the word is chosen with respect to what follows. |
| Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
| Desired to find a tabernacle - This was in David's heart, and it met with the Divine approbation: see Sa2 7:2, etc., and see the purpose, Psa 132:2-5; but, as David had been a man of war, and had shed much blood, God would not permit him to build the temple; but he laid the plan and made provision for it, and Solomon executed the design. |
7 And David said to Solomon, My son, as for me, it was in my mind to build an house unto the name of the LORD my God:
18 But will God in very deed dwell with men on the earth? behold, heaven and the heaven of heavens cannot contain thee; how much less this house which I have built!
47 But Solomon built him an house.
2 That the king said unto Nathan the prophet, See now, I dwell in an house of cedar, but the ark of God dwelleth within curtains.
2 That the king said unto Nathan the prophet, See now, I dwell in an house of cedar, but the ark of God dwelleth within curtains.
2 How he sware unto the LORD, and vowed unto the mighty God of Jacob;
3 Surely I will not come into the tabernacle of my house, nor go up into my bed;
4 I will not give sleep to mine eyes, or slumber to mine eyelids,
5 Until I find out a place for the LORD, an habitation for the mighty God of Jacob.
2 That the king said unto Nathan the prophet, See now, I dwell in an house of cedar, but the ark of God dwelleth within curtains.